Test the ColorWall code

Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop/ColorWall directory where the ColorWall code lives. For example, if the ColorWall project is at /home/jesstess/Desktop/ColorWall,

cd /home/jesstess/Desktop/ColorWall

will change you into that directory, and

ls

will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "run.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:

python run.py

at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script. You should see a window pop up and start cycling through colorful effects. If you don't, let a staff member know.

Now type:

python run.py -a -s

at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script so that it runs only the advanced effects. You should see a window pop up and start cycling through different colorful effects. If you don't, let a staff member know.

You can also run both sets of effects by typing:

python run.py -a

Success!

You've completed setup for the ColorWall project.

Wordplay

Download the Wordplay project

We've written some skeleton code for the Wordplay project already. Download this code so you're ready to start working with it tomorrow:

The ".zip" extension on the above files indicates that they are compressed Zip archives. We need to "extract" their contents. To do this, double-click on each file. This will create a directory for each file, containing the source code for the dependency.

Install the Twitter project dependencies

Each of these 4 dependencies has an installer script that we'll need to run at a command prompt to install the software. It is important that the dependencies are installed in the order listed above. For each project, start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop directory where the source code lives. For example, if the httplib2-0.6.0 project was extracted to /Users/jesstess/Desktop/Twitter/httplib2-0.6.0,

cd /Users/jesstess/Desktop/Twitter/httplib2-0.6.0

will change you into that directory, and

ls

will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "setup.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:

sudo python setup.py install

and hit enter to install httplib2. You will need to enter your Mac account password.

Navigate to the 3 other dependency directories and run

sudo python setup.py install

in all of them to install those dependencies as well.

We've written some skeleton code for the Twitter project already. Download this code so you're ready to start working with it tomorrow: